Measuring over 500,000 light-years across—five times the size of the Milky Way—NGC6872 is the second largest spiral galaxy discovered to date, according to NASA. On Monday, in honor of the ...
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 4694, a galaxy that possesses unusual properties that complicate its ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows UGC 10043, a spiral galaxy about 150 million light-years away in the ...
On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...
Here, we’ll take a look at seven of the largest galaxies we've recently observed. Each one is unique and gives us a glimpse into the greatness of space. Malin 1 is a very large spiral galaxy ...
Spiral galaxies have a thin ... In rather plain fashion, the smallest galaxies are called dwarfs while the largest are called giants. Our Milky Way Galaxy is one of three large galaxies in ...
A "treasure trove" of stunning new images showing 19 spiral galaxies have been captured ... have also released what NASA says is the largest catalog ever of roughly 100,000 star clusters, a ...
Astronomers have employed the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) to perform comprehensive multiwavelength observations of a large and massive spiral galaxy known as UGC 2885. Results of the ...